Hannah Carroll, a sophomore in engineering and a member of Zeta Tau Alpha, said the sorority is where she feels she belongs.
“From my experience in this sorority, I love it,” Carroll said. “I didn’t enjoy my freshman year. I didn’t have good experiences.”
Bid Day is when new members of the sororities get to meet whoever else is in the sorority and the Rho Chis. Rho Chis are the members of sororities who recruit new members.
“The new members don’t know which Rho Chi belongs to which sorority,” Carroll said. “The Rho Chis do a dance, [and] then they take off their Rho Chi T-shirt and have their sorority T-shirt on and re-join their sorority.”
After the celebration on Harris Field, each sorority goes back to their house for various activities.
“ZTA goes back to our house, we play some games with the new members, eat dinner, mingle and just, generally speaking, have fun,” Carrol said.
At Bid Day, each sorority has its own theme. According to Caroline Daly, a member of Phi Beta Phi and a junior in political science, the themes are helpful to new members.
“Each sorority having their own theme helps the new members to be able to find their sorority,” Daly said. “We’ve had our theme planned since May.”
Elizabeth Surovec, a freshman in biological sciences, said she enjoyed the experience.
“I’m really excited to join my new sisters and my new friends in the sorority I’m going to join,” Surovec said. “I’ve had a lot of fun with the whole Rush process. I got to meet a lot of really nice people.”
According to Sara Seawell, a member of Sigma Kappa and a senior in zoology, all the senior members of the sororities are the members initially on Harris Field.
“All the juniors and sophomores in the sorority storms Harris Field,” Seawell said. “After that, the freshmen join us and the Rho Chis rejoin their sororities. [Then] we go back to the house.”
Each sorority makes the choice of what to do once they have returned to its house, according to Seawell.
“We’re going to go back to the house and take pictures, eat, teach the new members some songs, and give them all their Bid Day basket, which has a t-shirt and some other things in there,” Seawell said.
Seawell said she felt a sense of relief on Bid Day.
“Rush Week is really busy, so I’m glad it’s over, but I’m still kind of nervous for our new members,” Seawell said.
Amelia Warburton, a member of Sigma Kappa and a junior in biological sciences, said she remembers how she felt on Bid Day when she joined her sorority.
“It was a relief to join officially and be a part of the group.”
